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Senate committee hears bill to let victims sue creators of fake crowdfunding campaigns
Summary
Senators heard testimony on House Bill 4,281, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Hancock, which would let people or the state pursue operators of fraudulent crowdfunding campaigns and allow victims to recover 25% of funds taken. A family that experienced a GoFundMe scam testified; the committee left the bill pending.
Senator Richard Hancock laid out House Bill 4,281 to the Senate Committee on State Affairs, saying the measure would allow individuals or the state to pursue people who set up fake crowdfunding campaigns and give victims a way to recover money taken from those campaigns.
Melanie Dowell, whose family’s experience in late 2023 motivated the bill, told the committee that while her twin sister, Lauren Muckleroy, survived a crash that killed her husband and two children, strangers…
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